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Can We Say an Ear of Cabbage : On Translating Wordplay in Xi Xi’s Poetry

, 2017
This article reflects on the translation of wordplay in the poetry of Hong Kong author Xi Xi. Xi Xi is a highly imaginative poet: much of her poetry hinges upon specificities of the Chinese language, and one might well ask if this makes her work ...
FEELEY, Jennifer
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Vowel duration issue in Civili [PDF]

, 2009
The main goal of this article is to define the problem of vowel duration in Civili (H12a). It shows that the so-called Civili vowel-length desperately needs to be re-examined, because previous works on the sound system of this language hardly explain a ...
Ndinga-Koumba-Binza, Hugues Steve
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Afterberners: An Assemblage of Nouns [PDF]

, 1991
The English language owes a debt of gratitude of Dame Juliana Berners. She was born circa 1388 and is believed to have been the prioress of a nunnery near St. Albans, Hertforshire, England.
Newby, Peter
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Common Onomatopoeia in Ihanzu

, 2023
A presentation on common onomatopoeia, given at the Ihanzu Symposium.
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Onomatopoeia: The Daily Grind [PDF]

, 1992
This is the second of two articles on the onomatopoeia of words for sounds produced by inanimate objects; the first article appeared in the May 1991 Word Ways.
Eckler, A. Ross
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Human Translators and Artificial Intelligence in the Translation of Onomatopoeias and Interjections Based on the Problematic of the Arbitrariness/Motivation of the Sign

İstanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Dergisi
Sounds that imitate and depict human voices, animal sounds, sounds of nature, and sounds emanating from objects can be defined as onomatopoeia. Interjections are words that convey emotions such as joy, pain, surprise, greeting, approval, disapproval ...
Dilber Zeytinkaya
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From bladder stones to brand sound [PDF]

, 2015
How an eighteenth century viol piece relates to twenty first century research on television viewing ...
Myers, Pamela
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Definition and description of interjections in the first grammar books of the Romanian language (1667-1914) [PDF]

Diversitate si Identitate Culturala in Europa
a diachronic perspective, highlights, on the one hand, a clear evidence of its belonging to the category of inflexible parts of speech. On the other hand, the semantic constant of the interjection with reference to the notion of state of mind is ...
Alina Marieta RUCĂREANU (Maica ALEXANDRA)
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On Parsing CHILDES [PDF]

, 2005
Research on child language acquisition would benefit from the availability of a large body of syntactically parsed utterances between parents and children. We consider the problem of generating such a ``treebank'' from the CHILDES corpus, which currently
Laakso, Aarre
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Ideophones: honing in on a descriptive and typological concept

Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads
This paper introduces the special issue of Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads, entitled “Ideophones: honing in on a descriptive and typological concept”, edited by Aimée Lahaussois, Julie Marsault and Yvonne Treis.
Julie Marsault, Aimée Lahaussois, Yvonne Treis   +2 more
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